William E. Breese Sr. House
# William E. Breese Sr. House

William E. Breese Sr. House is a historic house located at 674 Biltmore Avenue in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina.

## Description and history

It was built in 1891 by architect Charles B. Leonard, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, rectangular timber-framed dwelling in the Queen Anne style. It features an off-center entrance tower with a steeply pitched pyramidal roof. The building housed a sanatorium, called Sherwood Sanatorium, from around 1927 to 1932. After 1939, the building housed a tourist home known as Cedar Crest.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 28, 1980.

